Steve Jones (runner)

An RAF aircraft technician who trained around his duties, Jones set a world record of 2:08:05 in Chicago in 1984 with almost no marathon experience behind him. He raced from the front with little regard for even pacing, won London in 1985, ran 2:07:13 back in Chicago that autumn and later took New York in 1988. His British record lasted 33 years, until Mo Farah broke it in 2018.